Kinect is in, 'Project Natal' is out

Who cares about the name when they still haven't shown anything but casual games?

I like the name Kinect better than Natal for sure.

kinetic motion fits the description of the product quite well. Sony already took Move so that one was gone.

I vote for Natal... new name is very much the Suck

Kinect is a stupid name, it sounds like someone with a bad english accent trying to say "connect".

For the record, 4 years on and I still think the name Revolution is 10 times better than Wii.

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Hmm, don't really know how to work that into a joke, so I'll just leave that there.

"Kinect" is the name, huh? Well, I guess it matches the Microsoft enabled phone "Kin". Interesting.

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I thought Microsoft's "World Premier" Natal event was supposed to be tonight? Other sites say it's on Tuesday.

And why in the hell would USA Today leak this information?

Shoulda named it Move before Sony got to it.

wonder how mad ms is at usa today lol.

cool, at least people will be able to pronounce this name

Does the name have anything to do with Microsoft phone the kin

Really Microsoft, Kinect? Really? Come on, I know you are wanting to show off the KIN, but this just doesn't work, at all. Even Natal is a better name, though not by much!

I mean come on Microsoft! Even Sony's Move name is better, not great, but at least it makes sense & actually applies to the concept.

No one is "Kinect"ing with this, there's no controller! What is this, are you going to do away with the Dashboard in favor of the KIN OS next? Is this your grand strategy, try to merge your gaming and mobile platforms into one? You have already started with the Zune Marketplace, are you going to try to make all the devices work with each other, have them all use that KIN timeline application you advertise somehow?

I hope the Kinect works, and works well, but you really needed to put some more thought into the name. I usually don't care about names, but this has so many scary things it can lead to that I have to be bothered by it!

Clever play on words, but I feel like I'd have a hard time using the name in passing conversation (I just know I'll be calling it "connect").

At this point whenever I see the peripheral, I see it as Natal. Might as well have stuck with that.

THEY ALSO REVEALED THE NEW XBOX SLIM!!!!! SEE IT HERE!! AVAILABLE TOMORROW!!! http://www.lionsdenu.com/microsoft-releases-new-slimmer-xbox-360-with-kinect/ Theres picture of it, video of gameplay etc.

I heard it first, so I didnt know its spelled with a clever reference to kinetics. It sounded like a name of a public transportation system, as in "You can take Kingston's Kinect tram to the stadium to catch the game."